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East and North Valley · sector 02

Van Nuys Viking Appliance Repair

Viking repair in Van Nuys, valley heat leaning on every piece of built-in cooling.

Heat arrives before the fault does

Refrigeration works by handing its heat to the air around it, and that only happens while the air arriving is cooler than the coil giving the heat up. Through a run of hot weeks on the valley floor, the air in a closed kitchen is not much help, and a cabinet that coped perfectly in spring starts running longer and recovering more slowly. Nothing has broken. What has gone is the margin the machine was carrying, and a coil with a felt of dust on it, a tired fan or a seal no longer sitting flat is what spent that margin. Summer only makes it visible.

Two things to look at before the call

Neither needs a tool. Check that the grille at the base of the cabinet is clear of dust and pet hair, since that is where the air a built-in depends on goes in. Then close the door slowly and watch whether it meets its seal along the whole edge or catches at one corner. Those two account for a fair share of the calls that come in from this part of the valley. Everything past them belongs to meters rather than eyes, and it is taken in order, with the refrigerant side left alone until the readings genuinely point there.

Booking a Van Nuys visit

Phone Viking Repair HQ Los Angeles on (213) 320-7007 and describe what the cabinet is doing rather than what you think has failed: which side is warm, how long it has been that way, and whether it recovers overnight. The model and serial let the van carry the likely parts. One $89 charge covers getting out to you and working out the fault, and agreeing to the repair puts that money against it.

Reviews

What Los Angeles owners say

Calls in Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Studio City and Sherman Oaks.

5.0 / 51,849 reviews

  • The infrared broiler stopped lighting while the rest of the range worked normally. A dead spark electrode and a lazy safety valve, both changed in one visit. He explained why he tested them in that order.

    Ruben T.Los Feliz

  • Standing water sat in the bottom of the tub after every wash. He opened the drain hose and pulled out a wad of grit and label paper stuck in the loop. No pump needed. The visit ran hours late.

    Graciela V.Silver Lake

  • The valley sat past a hundred for a week and our compressor never once shut off. Its condenser was furred with dust and the fan was barely turning. Cleaned out, new fan, and it cycles properly again.

    Jolene W.Studio City

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Book a visit in Van Nuys

Van Nuys is in sector 02, East and North Valley, and one desk books all six of them — say the street and what the machine is doing and it is in the diary.

Flat $89 to get someone out and the fault found · on site 8:00 am – 8:00 pm, seven days · desk answered 24/7

Two formed steel hinge brackets with bolts, nuts and a washer on a cream towel beside a wire brush, long-nose pliers and four coloured drivers
A matched pair of hinge brackets before they go back on